A character in this novel claims that his only “trouble was innocence,” providing the “definition of innocence” used by Cleanth Brooks in one of his essays about this novel. After being barred off from a large house, a boy in this novel vows that none of his children will ever be turned away from a door. A character in this novel uses hunting dogs to chase away the unnamed French architect of his (*) mansion, to which his son exiles himself after shooting his mixed-race half-brother. In this novel, two characters visit the “Hundred,” a former plantation where Henry and Clytie still reside. A character in this novel asks, "Why do you hate the South?" after hearing his roommate tell the rags-to-riches story of a man who came from western Virginia to Mississippi. For 10 points, name this William Faulkner novel about Thomas Sutpen. ■END■
ANSWER: Absalom, Absalom!
<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
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